On Mon, 2017-04-24 at 09:55 -0700, Omar Sandoval wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 04:40:21PM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote: > > One of the debugfs attributes allows to run a queue. Since running > > a queue after a queue has entered the "dead" state is not allowed > > and even can cause a kernel crash, unregister the debugfs attributes > > before a queue reaches the "dead" state. > > More important than this case, I think, is that blk_cleanup_queue() > calls blk_mq_free_queue(q), so most of the debugfs entries would lead to > use-after-frees. If you add that to the commit message and address my > comment below, > > Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@xxxxxx> Thanks! I will update the commit message. > > --- a/block/blk-core.c > > +++ b/block/blk-core.c > > @@ -566,6 +566,11 @@ void blk_cleanup_queue(struct request_queue *q) > > spin_lock_irq(lock); > > if (!q->mq_ops) > > __blk_drain_queue(q, true); > > + spin_unlock_irq(lock); > > + > > + blk_mq_debugfs_unregister_mq(q); > > + > > + spin_lock_irq(lock); > > queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD, q); > > spin_unlock_irq(lock); > > Do we actually have to hold the queue lock when we set QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD? It's way easier to keep that spin_lock()/spin_unlock() pair than to analyze the block driver core and all block drivers to see whether or not any concurrent queue flag changes could occur. Bart.